Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Society in Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World was an exaggerated society of the United States during the 1920s. These extreme societal boundaries were unknowingly predicting the future. Brave New World developed a liberal trend toward materialistic views on physical pleasure. Throughout the novel, there was dependence on science for reproduction, open-minded views on sex and, ideological concepts that disvalue family and relationship. In the modern-day United States these views are reciprocal and ever-present, however, these views were not directly mirrored, values today are not completely lost.

When readers read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, they are taken the World State, a dystopian society where the citizens are attracted to material goods, immediate happiness, and drugs that distract themselves from reality. Do Readers begin to wonder if the society we live in today become a dystopian society? While comparing societies, we begin to realize that our society is almost identical to the World State. Our societies are very similar, but we will never become a dystopian society like the World State, for we are not controlled by material goods, immediate happiness and drugs, we are controlled by our emotions.

In Aldous Huxley’s novel a Brave New World, published in 1931, there are several attacks on society. Throughout this essay it will be seen what these problems were and if they were fixed. If the problems were fixed, it must be determined when they were. The primary focus is to answer whether we have changed for the better, women’s role in society and the social classes. In the end it will be obvious that a perfect society is impossible but we have made improvement.

In his novel, “Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley portrays a society in which the government has full control. At the time of the books writing America was striving for this status quo of complacent pleasantry, censorship was an issue, and things that were extreme or painful were being removed. As man has progressed through the years, societies have tried to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But after reading Aldous Huxley's “Brave New World,” one comes to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human being really longs for. Huxley’s intended audience seems to be people that have the vision of a perfect society. He wrote the book as a dark satire. It's meant to mock (in a serious manner) the concept of a perfect society being possible. Huxley successfully made the point that there is more to life than stability and complacent happiness by utilizing a number of rhetorical strategies.

In the world of sex, drugs, and baby cloning you are going to be in many situations where you feel like the world we live in should be different. In the story Brave New World, they had sex with multiple partners along with a very bad use of drugs.

“And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you 've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”

The definition of suffrage is having the right to vote in political elections. So, the suffragettes campaigned for women to have the right to vote and other equal opportunities. In the early 20th century, women did not have the same rights as men. Women could not vote and most could only work as house servants. Equality became an issue. At first, the suffragettes tried using peaceful methods to campaign. Those peaceful methods were soon seen as ineffective. So, the movement became violent. The suffragettes dropped bombs, broke shop windows, and set buildings on fire. In 1878, the 19th Amendment was presented to Congress. It wasn’t until 41 years later, in 1920, when the Amendment was ratified. Finally, women had the right to vote. Millions of women voted for the first time in the November Election of 1920. It is somewhat of a controversy as to whether the suffragettes’ violent method helped the suffrage movement. Some say that the women were justified in the way they acted. Others feel that violence was the wrong way of handling the situation. Both of these opinions make valid points, but there is one thing that is certain. The suffragettes’ violent ways gained publicity. This allowed everyone to see the campaign. So, the suffragette’ methods brought attention to “the

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, people in the book show lack of emotion,feelings,interest or concern especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal wishing we had lack of apathy, my prediction is that people will no longer have strong emotions about anything important.They will become apathetic about most issues.We are convinced that one individual doesn’t matter. We can’t really make a difference in anything we believe in. That’s one of the reasons why people have started to lose interest in many aspects of their lives because they can’t do anything to change that. However,this only applies to a certain part of the population. To be honest in my opinion I personally think most of our generation thanks to social media

Aldous Huxley is the author of Brave New World and several different literary works. He was born into an aristocratic family in an English county called Surrey in 1894. Huxley probably received the best education a young writer could’ve gotten in England, attending Oxford University. In 1963, he died at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, California.

In Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” there is a forceful religious connotation. Huxley’s uses of biblical allusions emphasize the inborn necessity of spiritual belief, in even the most neutral society. By assimilating religious references into the population, specific characters, and science, he successfully illustrates the absolute need for the religion in any society

Humans live their day-to-day life searching for something that makes them truly happy. What if someone were to tell you that what you thought was true happiness was all an illusion. In a Brave New World by Aldous Huxley people in the world state are conditioned and drugged up by soma to not experience true happiness.

Women did not need really to have a reason to want to vote. They were being excluded from taking part and having their say in the most important political and economic way of making decisions and changes whereas men were. The opposition's argument against the women was rather ridiculous. The men against the petitioning women claimed that females let their emotions get too out of hand, which would apparently prevent them from making logical decisions in their voting. It was also implied that their home life would be disrupted. This generalisation only spurred the women on in their pursuit of

The novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1932 is known for its social satire, utopian values, and unusual standpoints on stereotypical gender roles. In this time where futuristic technology has completely taken over, and men and women are given the same opportunities for everything, “the genders appear equal within the social order; both men and women work at the same jobs, have equal choice in sexual partners, and participate in the same leisure pursuits” (March 53). Huxley makes for a rather interesting feminist; “he was not only concerned about making women equal to men, he was also deeply concerned with the effects of technology and globalization on the quality of life for both genders” (Douglas-McMahon 21). However, there are many different sections of his novel that prove he was unable to fully rid of gender roles because of the time period in which he lived. Many of the stereotypical gender roles discussed in this book are also multiplied or switched rather than abolished. In his attempt to rid of stereotypical gender roles, Huxley manages to revolutionize, make fun of, and reconstruct them all in one breath.

A perfect society is always an ideal dream of the human mind. Peace, love, and education are intertwining parts of a perfect society or, a utopia. This idea is not always the case in an imperfect world and is usually only a hopeful dream. These types of worlds can greatly be described in detail through the world of science fiction. Aldous Huxley was an English writer who lived during a time when war and chaos were engulfing the world. His works reflect his view and thoughts on a dystopia, which is a false utopia, and describes what could occur in possible governments of the world. The ability to understand and dive into the thoughts of the author is what makes world literature such an important aspect in literature. Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, depicts the horrors of a futuristic dystopia based on his society and significant aspects of his life, while leaving his mark on literature, as one of the most controversial and influential writers of the twentieth century.

The women’s suffrage movement fought for and eventually secured suffrage, or the right to vote and run for political office, for women. During the 19th century, women were steadily becoming more educated and more politically aware; as a result, they also became a great deal more concerned about their freedoms, rights, and treatment as individual persons and as a collective entirety. As a social movement, the suffrage movement mobilized through the strategic organization of activists working within both the abolitionist movement and the broader women’s rights movement. It is important to note that achieving the right to vote was not initially the women’s movement’s primary concern; gender equality was of foremost significance and has continued to be an overriding issue within the ongoing global women’s movement. Women’s suffrage began rising to prominence as a social issue “In 1848, [with] the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s convention” and “[b]y the time of the first National Women's Rights Convention in 1850, [..] suffrage was becoming an increasingly important aspect of the movement's activities” (Wikipedia Contributors, Women’s suffrage in the United States, 2017). Although the suffrage movement faced many obstacles and struggled to establish public awareness and notoriety, it continued to gain momentum and traction after these critical events.